halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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If you never bought products from a company run by an insufferable moron, you would be forced to buy directly from your neighbors for everything in your life. And even then there's always an insufferable moron nearby.

Many Americans live in apartments or condos with minimal to no personal outdoor space, and almost surely a ban on "farm" animals.

Clearly it's because they stopped him to verify he was a Nazi. When it became obvious he wasn't, everything else is the natural response of the ICE immune system of course. Purging anything non-Bald Eagle Screeching Aryan.

On flights between major airports, with no inclement weather, and ignoring direct human control like taxiing and communications, many commercial flights are already effectively there. Automatic takeoff, autopilot in the air, and auto land systems handle nearly everything else automatically.

A reminder that for the McDonald's claim, she only wanted her medical bills covered, it was McDonald's that refused a much smaller claim of some tens of thousands and instead insisted on taking it to court. Plus they had been advised numerous times previously from customers about burns due to their decision to maintain the temp of their brewed coffee so high for so long after it was made, solely to minimize profit loss. They were scraping pennies and ignoring customer warnings.

“Starbucks offered $30m to settle but wanted confidentiality. We said we would settle for $30m without confidentiality and only if Starbucks agreed to publicly apologize and promise to change policy to prevent this from happening again,”

Starbucks offered the guy $30M with a confidentiality agreement. They were already clearly thinking it warranted an amount in that region, which would only be if they thought they could be liable for even more.

That McDonald's case is going to fuck them up. It's clear precedent for a largely similar case. The extreme publicity around it also means Starbucks can't claim ignorance of the danger of hot coffee via the drive thru as any sort of defense.

That requires the rest of the government, namely Congress to stop the President from directing his branch of government break the law. And they've shown no intention of starting to do that.

That doesn't require the patriarchy, just the fashion industry in general trying to sell as much as possible. Adding an entirely different and otherwise unnecessary article of clothing is a brilliant idea honestly.

It'll take more than that. America had concentration camps for the Japanese while we were actively fighting the Nazis in WWII and their own camps.

Easy to say people are dead and collecting benefits when you are the one that marks them as dead when you know they're still alive and will continue to collect.

I don't believe for a second that people at DOGE didn't do this on purpose a few times to have examples to point to.

No he for sure thinks calling something a war makes it one. He thinks shit like the War on Drugs, are actual wars.

A Fullbright scholar who dared to call the Palestinian genocide what it is. That's why the visa was revoked. No crime, just advocating for human rights. Fuck this administration and everyone that even tangentially supports it, they all have blood on their hands.

Messing with the military industrial complex is not the smartest move for Trump. All that will do is turn the military against him.

Removing this display does literally the exact opposite of that.

Tesla used to famously not have commissioned sales. It's one of the reasons the buying process was so much better than a dealership honestly, no pressure to buy, and they had absolutely no control of the pricing or need to inflate a sale.

At one point they received general bonuses based on overall deliveries, but not on a per-vehicle basis that they interacted with.

Before I bought my Model 3, the "sales" person literally just took me on a test drive, then showed me the standard Tesla.com website to configure what I was looking for. And based on my experience in retail sales myself at the time, they clearly were there to advise and had no ball in the court when it came to whether I bought it through them, or even if I bought one at all.

Not sure if that changed in the last 5 years or so, but I doubt it switched to that type of system since that would mean Tesla having to implement an entire process to handle commissioned sales when they clearly would prefer people just buy them online.

If I remember right, TSMC requires their highest capability fabs to be in Taiwan, anything international must be less capable.

Putin knows that one of the quickest ways to destroy the US is if the rest of western civilization abandons it. Russia saw firsthand how quickly nearly the entire world joined in to sanction and abandon them when they invaded Ukraine with that bullshit story. The Panama shit is an even worse excuse, almost guaranteed to turn the western world fully against the US.

However, it's also physically separated enough from the US that Americans at home that don't pay attention won't be directly affected to turn against it with retaliation, the Republican base is racist and narcissistic enough to back it seriously, and with a large enough power imbalance so unlike Ukraine there's no chance of a prolonged conflict.

The infrastructure isn't in place yet for them to just do whatever they want and arrest every protester like Russia does, so they do have to still take that into account, Panama is remote and unknown to a large portion of the population sadly. But the building of Panama Canal is something that many learned about in school as a pivotal historical infrastructure project. Something still in use today and referenced in the news even though they may not know where it is. For the America is Best narcissist, taking back what "we" built is an admirable goal.

The downside is that it requires a user account.

Most large US supermarkets make you have loyalty accounts to get their real prices anyway as it is, in exchange for your buying habits, otherwise everything is marked up.

Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you're buying, and know what you actually need.

Most people don't need to pay a premium for something they'll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.

For most people, they don't really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.

Gotta love the Streisand Effect.

I probably never would have even heard about this book without their attempt to stop it.